ABSTRACT
The school was attached to a house, in which the children who were in residence lived. The older children had a typewriter, and a library of suitable books. One of the rooms became a quiet room for the older children, with shelves for the school library, and the general reading and writing equipment. The area of definite command and prohibition was thus kept as small as possible. Moreover, even within these limits, appeal was made wherever possible to the children’s intelligence, and to the objective grounds for the desired behaviour. The material provided was laid out on low shelves round the various rooms, in such a way that it was easily within the reach of the children, and so plainly seen that it invited them to interest. The free activity had, of course, its necessary practical limits, and was set in a general framework of relatively fixed arrangements. It may be best to describe first negative conditions.
